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The effect that sound and music have on one's health and wellness is profound. The community of professionals and organizations contributing to this field is substantial. Paranada is devoted to fostering an awareness of the myriad choices available for composing a truly harmonized personal soundscape. By bringing together practitioners, artists, products, services, information, and music, Paranada strives to facilitate the ideal integration of sound and music in our lives and environment. Presented in an independent, interdisciplinary fashion, the resources available at Paranada include a directory, news digest, articles, event listings, discussion forum, sound/music samples, and much more. We invite you to become a member of our community and join in the conversation. Thank you for visiting!

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Doctor of High Cs
People
Thursday, 28 February 2008
On Tuesday afternoons, when St. Augustine resident Roger J. Geronimo makes his rounds at Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville, he carries with him a red-velvet "Santa-bag" filled with toys and musical instruments, a heart filled with love and a beautiful tenor voice. "This is my favorite gig," whispers Geronimo as the tiny hand of Semaj Gettis curls around his outstretched finger and the 3-month old patient drifts off to sleep. "When a member of this audience falls asleep while I'm singing, it's like a standing ovation."

Geronimo's singing ministry to infants and toddlers calls for a completely different approach than the booming Italian arias he belts out on the big stage. "Infants respond to slow, soft, calming music," said Melony Xynidis, who has headed Wolfson's child life music therapy program for more than a decade. "Roger had to learn to modulate his voice very differently," she said, "and to approach the room in a quiet rather than flamboyant manner." Employing a gentle, sensitive, soothing approach that is totally in sync with the unique needs of each child and family is standard for Roger and the other musicians who volunteer for the child life music program.
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Hard Rock Café hosts March on Stage with Nordoff Robbins
Philanthropy
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Hard Rock International’s much anticipated March On Stage series is back with a stellar line up of artists ready to rock the UK, with all proceeds benefiting Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy - the UK’s leading independent provider of music therapy services. Now in its third year, March On Stage will see Ocean Colour Scene, James Fox, Jonathan Ansell and Chris Difford performing at various UK Hard Rock Cafés. In Manchester we get the fabulous Ocean Colour Scene.

As Hard Rock say, ‘It’s has always been Hard Rock's philosophy to give back to the local communities in which we live and part of our philanthropic commitment as a global company is to increase our charitable activities. Nordoff-Robbins, however has been a long standing partner of Hard Rock's and we are delighted to have the opportunity to host these fantastic shows for the second year. We hope this relationship continues for many years and are looking forward to this years March on Stage.’ Last year Ocean Colour Scene, with Jamelia, helped Hard Rock raise over £35,000 for Nordoff Robbins.
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Drummer helps Salem kids make music
Music Healing
Monday, 25 February 2008
A traveling educator who taught some Salem students about making their own music plans to use his knowledge of drums to help children in Iraq. “This is the first time music has been used in an active war zone for peacemaking,” Dr. Craig Woodson said Tuesday. Woodson appeared at Southeast Elementary School in Salem for a program with fifth and sixth graders titled “A World Orchestra,” showing them how they can take everyday objects and turn them into musical instruments. He described the process as “mess and guess” — mess with something, such as dental floss and a hanger, and guess what kind of sound it will make.

In April, he’ll take his extensive drumming expertise to Iraq at the request of an organization called Save The Children, working with music therapist Christine Stephens on a drum circle program. “She asked me to go over and follow up, to show health care workers how to use drumming to reduce stress,” he said. Woodson will work with the health care workers and children on technology, how they can use different materials to make drums. Lessons will take place in former torture chambers now converted into community centers. The Clevelander has never traveled to Iraq and noted there will be language obstacles. When it comes to drumming, though, catching the rhythm is likely the same in any country — a rhythm he described as calming and sympathetic.
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If music be the food of emotional therapy, play on
Music Healing
Monday, 25 February 2008
Most people listen to music, even if it's only when they're in a traffic jam. It has been described as an international language. Even when we know nothing of the culture, we can relate to its music. Think of our reaction to hearing a tango or an Indian sitar. You might feel like dancing, stomping your feet or simply sitting to reflect on life. It is these reactions that for centuries have led to speculation that music might have therapeutic value.

As far back as the middle ages, Al-Kindi -- an Arabian physician -- recognised the therapeutic potential of music and used it to try to cure a quadriplegic boy. And The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, a 17th century British physician, identified music as an agent of psychological healing. In Britain and the US, music therapy has been in use since the 1940s and has a role in a variety of specialities including geriatric, palliative care, psychiatry and learning disability, while universities worldwide provide degree courses for those wishing to become music therapists.
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Sir Paul McCartney to play for Lipa
Philanthropy
Monday, 25 February 2008
The Sir Paul McCartney Capital of Culture concert at Anfield will raise money for Lipa. The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts will share £300,000 raised by a ticket ballot for the Liverpool Sound event in June. The Culture Company said the money would help attract the best students to the fame school as well as providing funds for the Nordoff-Robins Music Therapy charity. Cash raised from ticket ballots for other big events will also go to the two causes.

The Liverpool Sound concert is one of several Capital of Culture events for which people had to enter a ballot to buy tickets. It takes place on June 1 with tickets ranging from £35 to £75. The other charity to benefit was the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity, which will use the funds to significantly increase its services in Merseyside. Bryan Gray, chairman of Liverpool Culture Company, said: “It was a unique ballot and one which will benefit the city, not least through the support for Lipa and Nordoff- Robbins.”
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